Tahoma Senior High School

As a roomy secondary school in Maple Valley, Washington, Tahoma Senior High School serves 2,919 students from grades 9 through 12, overseen by Tahoma School District. Compared to the state average of about 573 students per school, that is 409% larger than typical.

Tahoma School District comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 9,234 students; Tahoma Senior High School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Tahoma Senior High School records that White students make up the majority at 65%. Other groups include 12% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 8% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, King County as a whole is about 55% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 122 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. About 19% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against King County (around 38%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Tahoma Senior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.2%, the actual is 58.3%, a residual of -8.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, King County reports that the typical household earns roughly $124,746 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Tahoma Senior High School is one of 544 public schools in King County (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students).

Glacier Park Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Tahoma Senior High School. On composite proficiency, Tahoma Senior High School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 55.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Tahoma Senior High School has expanded 12%, going from 2,600 students in 2018 to 2,919 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 74% to 65% over that span.

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